Christina Farr reports on what’s in the works at Comcast: The device will monitor people’s basic health metrics using ambient sensors, with a focus on whether someone is making frequent trips to the bathroom or spending more time than usual in bed. Comcast is also building tools for detecting falls, which are common and potentially…
Category: Healthcare
In Health Care, Too Much Privacy Is a Bad Thing
… says a data scientist, Luke Miner. He seems to want us all to feel guilty if we don’t share our health data more, because think of all the progress in healthcare that COULD be made, if only…. So Miner’s solution seems to be to relax the federal prohibitions and requirements for sharing. Sorry, Luke….
Slovak Data Protection Authority fines Faculty Hospital Nitra for providing medical records to expert witness
Peter Kováč and Lukáš Mrázik of Kinstellar write: The Slovak Data Protection Authority (“Slovak DPA”) has fined Faculty Hospital Nitra EUR 2,000 for unlawfully processing sensitive personal data in breach of § 13 section 1 of Act. No 122/2013 Coll., On Personal Data Protection (“Data Protection Act 2013”). The Slovak DPA found the hospital in…
A West Point cadet died in a skiing accident in February. A judge just ruled his parents can use his frozen sperm
AP reports: The parents of a 21-year-old West Point cadet fatally injured in a skiing accident can use his frozen sperm to produce a child, a judge ruled while noting potential ethical considerations. Supreme Court Justice John Colangelo’s ruling, dated Thursday, gives Peter Zhu’s parents the ability to attempt conception with a surrogate mother using…